‘Why we trade small freedoms for big safety’
WashU School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, takes part in an episode of the “Wondros” podcast to discuss what can truly make America healthy, looking at areas such as nutrition, living conditions and work-life balance.
A radical proposal to abolish state government and strengthen American democracy
Get rid of states? Legal scholar Stephen Legomsky, who taught for 34 years at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, has just published a book, “Reimagining the American Union,” that proposes a radical idea: Abolish state government. The Conversation’s politics and democracy editor, Naomi Schalit – a former statehouse reporter herself – interviewed Legomsky about the provocative idea behind his book, in which he advocates moving most of the functions of state government down to the local level, closer to those represented and governed by it.
A new book of Edward Gorey’s drawings shows what’s lost when the artist’s sexuality is glossed over
Rather than limiting the understanding of his work, accounting for Gorey’s queerness invites viewers of his art and readers of his work into deeper communion with the artist – and themselves, writes Liz Wolfson.
Opinion: The remarkable contributions of an American university
The dynamic and creative quality of the United States is in no small part the result of the dynamism of its colleges and universities. Most of this research is neither left nor right, red nor blue, but in the interest of all Americans and the country as a whole. To lose its vitality and effectiveness would be nothing short of a national tragedy, writes Mark Rank.
From Kent State to L.A.: Echoes of a Dark Past in Protest Crackdown
Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard against anti-deportation protesters is sadly familiar after other attacks on the First Amendment, writes Greg Magarian.
Is Restructuring the Answer?
Joel Seligman discusses Stephen H. Legomsky’s radical call for restructuring the American republic.
Violence Against Jews Is About More Than Left or Right
The rise of identity politics and a growing taste for transgression have eroded the taboo against antisemitism across the political spectrum, writes Mark Oppenheimer.
Your left and right brain hear language differently − a neuroscientist explains how
Hysell Oviedo, the Roger M. Perlmutter Career Development Assistant Professor of Biomedical Research
In attacking ‘disparate impact,’ Trump turns civil rights upside-down
By attacking disparate impact theory, Trump not only signals that the persistent racial inequalities still visible in American society do not concern him, he is also showing that he intends to gut the very civil rights laws that were meant to dismantle those inequalities, writes Pauline Kim.
Introducing ‘The Eye: A Medical Humanities Podcast’
“The Eye,” a new medical humanities podcast hosted by WashU’s Rebecca Messbarger, recently launched on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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